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Three thousand years ago, they tore out my heart.

I

can

smell it. Top of the tower.

If the dragon answers, it may kill you.

Then it will finally have a reason to come close.

She's the one.

The Duke returns in seven days for the annual blood purity inspection.

All servants are required to be present.

The blood test will expose the dragon heart.

If they draw too much, its vessel dies first.

Neil if you choose to stay

May

I Pain makes people reveal

themselves.

What will it reveal in you?

Only what you

Perfect, my lady.

From now on, you're mine.

The collar knows my blood.

Break it and the castle knows I'm here.

The heart is awake.

So is the vessel.

Seven days.

Then I take my heart back.

Make it tighter.

You're too close.

That scar, it's pretty.

My father likes to see me tight.

The tighter the vessel, the purer the blood.

Go out.

Let it show, body talk Let it show

That's my heart beating inside her.

So why the hell do I want her?

Why are you still here?

Waiting for your next order, my lady.

You're flushed. The corridor is warm.

Of course.

Were you running?

Maybe. From what?

You.

Next time, breathe quiet.

The dragon bone disrupts the heart-binding seal and makes her bleed

whenever the dragon heart does.

How could you let this happen?

I buried 3,000 people in the last famine.

The pact feeds this land. I will not let sentiment starve it again.

Father, let me handle it.

She kneels in my room tonight. She doesn't move without my word.

Know why I kept you?

Because you recognized me.

No, because when I gave you a door you chose to kneel.

May I?

You said no one touches me without permission.

You said nothing about me touching you.

Then ask.

My lady, did you call?

No. Leave us.

She saw my scales.

Why didn't she call the guards?

What? Don't go.

Stay.

Don't leave me in the dark.

I dreamt of you.

The shadow, the one who held me.

Don't stop unless I say so.

Say it, and I stop.

The roots cover her heart.

I could bite it out, but she'd die in my arms.

Come here.

You keep looking down.

Who taught you that?

No one. I was hungry.

Eleonora. The test is near.

Once you're bled, Edith takes your place.

You're only a vessel.

Five days then I'm discarded or dead

You're

not human I know the heart you're missing is it mine

What do you want what was stolen from me

The heart in your chest.

You called me here.

I needed something my father couldn't put on a leash.

Five days.

End the pact.

Then take your heart or save me.

Take it now and you die.

I know.

Eleonora, you look pale.

Is the blood draining too much these days?

Look at you.

Famous vessel of Greyfort, pale as a ghost.

But I suppose that's the point, isn't it? They want you empty.

Father authorized an early sample from the current vessel.

Forgive me.

I thought you'd hurt Lady Eleonora.

Gold blood, I see.

Does Eleonora know what sleeps in her bed? A servant, my lady. No, a key.

Careful.

Keys can cut.

We're done here.

Do you know what happens when she dies?

They cut me open next.

Then help us end it.

End it?

No. I intend to be the one holding the knife.

Your father wants me to learn from you.

But your dog sleeps in your room.

She called me a dog.

Three thousand years, and humans still see a beast.

Draw me a bath Yes, m'lady

Don't come

closer Then come back to me

Edith called me your dog.

And that's why you ran.

She has the transfer order.

In five days, she takes your place.

You're not afraid of what she called you.

You're afraid she'll take me away.

I'm afraid she'll take what's mine.

Which one?

My heart.

My choice.

Why does it hurt more every time I touch you?

I can't tell you.

Not yet.

Then don't lie to me again.

It's not part of the seal.

Your ancestors.

The first blood pact.

It began in the Northern Covenant cave.

If it can end, it ends there.

Their sin isn't yours.

Stop.

Three thousand years.

No one ever stopped.

Then they never understood the pact.

It doesn't fear love.

It fears choice.

You're shaking.

Not because of you.

Losing you.

By order of the Duke, evidence of dragon contamination confirmed.

Inspect in advance to three days from now.

The heart-binding seal is weakening.

The seal is only the outer lock, the roots of the cage.

Can you take it now?

Three days.

That's all we have.

Poor Eleonora.

The new vessel is stronger.

The old one will be retired.

Too faint. I can't tell which glass.

Dance with me.

My lady, I... Now.

They want me replaced.

Burned.

But when I look at you, I see a fire worth dying in.

Always, my lady.

Wine. Your maid's insane!

Something's wrong with the wine.

Get the taper.

Dragonbone.

It'll stop your heart during the test. You had half a sip.

How long do I have?

Three days. Maybe less.

The blood ball will stop your heart.

Let's play tonight.

Yes, my lady.

Who do you belong to?

You, my lady.

You're freezing.

Your heart's fading.

What did you do?

You're alive.

I just need a few hours to recover.

Every time I bring you back, it binds us tighter.

At this rate, I may never get my heart back.

I bought her time, not a cure.

They test her before the poison's gone. She's dead.

Father, look.

Dragon scales.

She's a dragon.

A beast in human skin.

An unbound dragon on Greyfort's soil is an invader's burn.

She's mine.

I'll deal with her myself.

No one touches the vessel before an inspection.

Your rule, father.

Eddith found a dragon scale and gold blood. The inspection is tomorrow.

If that beast has tointed your blood... Then burn me too.

Seal every exit.

Without the pact, the northern fields die before spring. One vessel feeds 50

,000 mouths.

And if the vessel refuses?

Then 50,000 people will learn what her freedom cost them.

Your heart's pounding, my lady.

Is it the dragon you're afraid of, or losing me?

The knights will be here by dawn.

Have the steak ready.

Should I prepare a second?

If the vessel is tainted.

This isn't an inspection. It's an execution.

If they draw my blood, the poison kills me.

If they find you, they burn you.

Then we leave tonight.

They'll be watching every gate.

then we're not leaving through a gate.

The key gets us into the cellar, but an old ward seals the tunnel beyond it. And

if I can't break it, then we break it together.

I'm getting you out tonight.

Meet me in the cellar at midnight.

This is where they first bled me.

I was seven.

I can break the ward, but not like this.

You saw me?

Who was she? Was that... me?

My heart is inside you.

Shh.

They brought hounds.

Don't make a sound.

Sir, the hounds found blood in each channel.

You can let go now.

I know.

They're cutting us off from the north.

Still with me.

Always, my princess.

Then run.

Hold on

Your

wing

can't take both of us I can carry you I just can't fight them off at the same

time

Every time I save you the roots sink deeper.

Then stop saving me.

Teach me how to fight it myself.

The cave is beneath those peaks.

Then that's where we end this.

You're not going anywhere.

No.

You don't get to save me and die alone.

Vera.

Cold. Don't go.

Keep me awake.

Follow my heartbeat.

Four counts in.

Hold. Four counts out.

You're doing it.

My body, my fire.

I'm here, but you brought yourself back.

You can't hide it now.

I know.

What did it cost you?

It took most of my fire.

I can't fly or fully shift again before dawn.

If they find us now I won't be able to fight them off.

Will you die?

No You're impossible

I know

This time, I protect you.

Virax, by the Old Pact, I command you.

Kneel!

My true name is carved into that scale. It lets her invoke the Old Pact.

Edith.

Did the cast-off vessel come crawling back to die?

You want the heart inside me.

You want my title. And you want me burned alive.

Then come and take what you think is yours.

Virax! Under the old pact!

Kneel!

Death does not release you from the old pact.

Rise, my knight.

Follow the dragon heart.

Bring the vessel back.

It follows the heart, not the blood, and we can't change it. But we can see it

while we make our stand.

You're burning up.

It's my fire. It won't burn you.

Hearts of Brutals may enter.

You're not their Virax.

You're Vera.

My Vera.

Vera.

I almost lost myself.

But you came back.

You won't lose yourself.

I'll call you back.

Your choice.

No.

We choose together.

It's calling me.

It's calling us.

Let me go.

That night, she was me.

I took the bolt for you and you gave me your heart.

And I'd give it to you again.

In every life.

Your heart was a gift.

What they built around it was a prison.

They made me a thief.

They turned my body into a prison for your heart.

They used me too.

I called it love, but I never asked if she wanted to live that way.

I chose for her.

They turned that choice into a chain.

Then ask me now.

Every time.

May I hold your hand?

One heart, two souls.

What wounds one, the other must bear.

If we break the bond, I get my heart back, and you die.

If we choose each other, you live, and the heart becomes ours.

Forever.

What will it do to me?

Will I lose myself?

Your body will change.

The bond can change your body.

It doesn't get to decide who you are.

If she knows there is a third path, she'll choose pain with me.

I can still spare her.

The dragon gave up her heart willingly.

Love did what our weapons could not.

The dragon gave up her heart willingly.

We bound the heart to great white blood.

Her sacrifice became our inheritance.

We were never guardians.

We were thieves.

He knew.

And he kept doing it!

Eleonora.

They turned your gift into a curse.

I'm done running.

What are you going to do? I'm going back to Greyfort. I'm going to kill my

father. Then I'll stand beside you.

Not in front of me.

Not behind me.

Beside me.

Are you sure?

He made my body his prison.

Now I'm going home to tear it down.

You can still turn back.

I spent my whole life running from him.

Tonight, he dies.

Then I'll stand beside you.

Gray Fork ahead!

Are you afraid?

Yes, but I'm done obeying him.

In the hall, stand beside me.

Beside you?

Welcome home vessel.

I'm not your vessel.

Kneel, Eleonora.

Then the North will learn to live without mine.

Virax!

By the old pact!

Kneel!

That name doesn't own me anymore.

You knew what they did to her.

You knew what they did to me.

I've kept this kingdom alive.

You kept it alive by feeding it women.

Without

the

blood tax, they'll starve!

What happens now?

No more vessels.

No more blood taps.

If the North is going to survive, it will survive without owning another

woman's body.

Remember?

Now we live.

The stores won't last through winter.

My father kept private stores beneath the West Tower.

Open them today.

Sell his silver and half his warhorses.

Use the money to buy grain from the southern valleys before the mountain

road closes.

And the blood tax?

There will be no blood tax.

No veckles.

No cages.

No woman will be used to feed this kingdom again. Judge me in spring by how

many tables still have food.

Will you spend the rest of your life with me?

Yes. I choose you.

No collar. No chains.

Stand beside me. I choose it.

We made it through winter without blood.

I came here to take back my heart.

And did you?

I took back my name, my life, my choice.

The heart can stay where I chose you to give it.

I'll go.

And if I ask you to stay, you won't have to command me.

Then stay.

I choose to.